↩ Proceeding now to the history of 📌the North, let the reader allow his interest to be excited, and he will find how much the events of the middle ages in general, and of the British isles in particular, will receive of light from the sources to which we are now directing his attention; he will see, that in 📌the North there was formed an historic style in the mother-tongue, so pure, so simple, and so lively, that it might serve as a pattern even now. He will discover that one kingdom at least in 📌the North, has an eventful history thus written, with the pencil of a 👤Walter Scott, and will feel that it has some claim upon the attention of civilized man. Now it is really the fact, that 👤Snorro Sturleson's ►“Heimskringla,” or history of 📌Norway, written in the thirteenth century, is, beyond any other, a book such as here described, which, al453though it has only yet been translated into Danish, Swedish, and Latin, deserves to be rendered into all languages, since it would be an ornament to the literature of any land, and become a favourite book with old and young, with all who enjoy the union of simplicity and grandeur. More or less resemblance to this master-work have all the Historic Sagas of 📌Iceland, but even where 👤Snorro's rank makes his tone and his style questionable, as in ►ⓘ Knytlinga-Saga (a history of the Danish kings, from 👤Canute the Great, to the son of 👤Valdemar the Great) and in ►Nials saga, (an Icelandic domestic history) his work is still highly valuable. It represents a continually renewed conflict for the regal throne on ⓘ 📌Dovre, and it excites so lively an interest, that it is impossible for the reader to remain neutral, but he is hurried away by the stream with the hero who pleases him, and sorrows by his grave till he once more arises in a renovated form.